Metrics endpoint not accessible preventing Prometheus scraping

Prometheus metrics are not showing up in monitoring systems, indicating the metrics endpoint on port 8082 is not accessible or the metrics service is not properly configured.

Verify the metrics port is accessible by running: kubectl port-forward -n traefik svc/traefik-metrics 8082:8082, then curl localhost:8082/metrics. Ensure the metrics entryPoint is configured in traefik.yaml, the container port 8082 is exposed in the deployment, and the traefik-metrics service is properly created with correct selectors.